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Applications are not packages. Let me repeat. Applications are not packages. This is a common misconception due to the (too) often blurring of concepts and terminology. Packages and applications are different and distinct things, so it's important to understand what those words mean (to MSIX). Packages and A Link to …
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A little while ago, I mentioned that Windows 95 had some defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version. These defenses kicked in whenever it dete Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260707-00/?p=112508
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There's advice making the rounds: replace your CLI args with a single --json payload so agents can use your tool more effectively. The thinking being, that agents already think in structured formats, and nested data maps cleanly to JSON. Flat args on the other hand, force awkward conventions like repeating …
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What we’re building toward As the share of code written by AI agents grows rapidly, two questions are central to effective AI adoption: How can teams turn AI usage into real productivity gains, and how can they maintain quality, security, and control while doing so? CI/CD is critical to both. Every contribution, …
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In any recent model comparison, you’ve probably seen a single number from a coding benchmark to represent “How good this model is at coding”. Those scores are tempting: they’re simple, they’re leaderboard-friendly, and they seem to tell a clear story about progress. But that story didn’t hold up when we looked more …
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Learn how to set up Serilog in ASP.NET Core with two-stage initialization, appsettings.json configuration, and structured request logging. .NET 9 and .NET 10. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/07/how-to-set-up-serilog-in-aspnet-core-stepbystep-guide
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A junior developer sits down with an AI coding assistant and types something like, “Build me an API for managing customer orders.” A few moments… Link to article: https://build5nines.com/ai-helps-junior-developers-code-faster-this-prompt-helps-them-build-better/
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We’re about to start rolling out a new set of AI capabilities that provide shared context, reusable agentic workflows, organization-level governance, and cost control for software production. Developers use different AI tools depending on the task – from JetBrains IDEs to terminal-based agents such as Claude Code, …
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You can now give your .NET agents reusable packages of domain expertise - instructions, reference documents, and scripts they load only when a task needs them - through a stable, production-ready API. Agent Skills for .NET in Microsoft Agent Framework has moved out of experimental preview - the [Experimental] attribute …
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In this post I show some of the improvements to the Process API in .NET 11 for running processes and reading their outputs without risk of deadlock Link to article: https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-11-preview-5-improvments-to-process-apis/
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Welcome back to another edition of Java Annotated Monthly! As always, we’ve rounded up the best reads from across the ecosystem so you don’t have to go hunting yourself. This month’s lineup spans the usual favorites: fresh finds from the Java and Kotlin worlds, a healthy dose of AI developments worth your attention, …
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It’s a situation you’ve probably experienced before: late in your development process, a security vulnerability surfaces during final testing, weeks after the code was written. As a result, you find yourself context-switching from your current sprint, reconstructing decisions you made a month ago, and trying to …
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Here's what shipped in Microsoft Foundry in June 2026 — Claude reached general availability, Foundry agents started publishing straight into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, and Toolboxes, Routines, and Memory all got meaningfully more capable. TL;DR Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry: Link to …
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Microsoft Agent Framework is Microsoft’s production-oriented framework for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows in .NET and Python. Let’s see how it works, why Microsoft created it, and when to choose it over Semantic Kernel, LangChain, or AutoGen. Link to article: …
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Learn how to publish NuGet package files to NuGet.org using dotnet nuget push. Covers API keys, nuget.config setup, the validation queue, and unlisting. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/06/how-to-publish-a-nuget-package-to-nugetorg
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Design patterns are where good data modeling lives or dies. In a NoSQL database like Azure Cosmos DB, the difference between a schema that scales to millions of operations per second and one that fights you at every turn usually comes down to a handful of well‑understood patterns: how you partiti Link to article: …
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In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers available, how on-demand inference scales to handle your workloads, and the different APIs you can use to access them. Using these models, customers can build …
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In this post, you deploy a two-phase infrastructure for multi-turn RL using Amazon Nova Forge on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. By the end, you have an event-driven pipeline that starts training when you upload data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The training job teaches the model to play Wordle, a …
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In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including Meta’s open-source Segment Anything Model (SAM 3) deployed on Amazon SageMaker AI for pixel-level segmentation, and Amazon Textract for optical character …
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In this post, you learn how to use the new MLflow integration with Amazon SageMaker AI optimized inference recommendation jobs and Amazon SageMaker AI benchmark jobs to automatically stream experiment data into a unified tracking interface. This integration streams metrics, parameters, and charts into your serverless …
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